Wordpress 2.8 has just been released..

Well, i just saw on the admin panel of wordpress that wordpress 2.8 is ready for public, so i just had to install it.

I haven’t got the time to browse for every single feature, but i did notice the plugin manager seems to have improved and it sure looks faster to install and upgrade your plugins.

The most notable addition would seem to be the ability to browse themes from within the WordPress Dashboard. With the Theme Browser you can specify the color you want, how many columns there should be, and fixed or flexible width. You can then select and install themes that you like quickly, without leaving the Dashboard.

Major New Improvements (Wordpress blog)

First and foremost, 2.8 is way faster to use. We’ve changed the way WordPress does style and scripting.

The core and plugin updaters in previous versions of WordPress have been such a success we decided to bring the same to themes. You can now browse the entire theme directory and install a theme with one click from the comfort of your WordPress dashboard.

If you make edits or tweaks to themes or plugins from your dashboard, you’ll appreciate the new CodePress editor which gives syntax highlighting to the previously-plain editor. Also there is now contextual documentation for the functions in the file you’re editing linked right below the editor.

If you were ever frustrated with widgets before, this release should be your savior. We’ve completely redesigned the widgets interface (which we didn’t have time to in 2.7) to allow you to do things like edit widgets on the fly, have multiple copies of the same widget, drag and drop widgets between sidebars, and save inactive widgets so you don’t lose all their settings. Developers now have access to a much cleaner and robust API for creating widgets as well.

Finally you should explore the new Screen Options on every page. It’s the tab in the top right. Now, for example, if you have a wide monitor you could set up your dashboard to have four columns of widgets instead of the two it has by default. On other pages you can change how many items show per page.

Highlights

• New drag-and-drop widgets admin interface and new widgets API
• Syntax highlighting and function lookup built into plugin and theme editors
• Browse the theme directory and install themes from the admin
• Allow the dashboard widgets to be arranged in up to four columns
• Allow configuring the number of items to show on management pages with an option in Screen Options
• Support timezones and automatic daylight savings time adjustment
• Support IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module
• Faster loading of admin pages via script compression and concatenation.

But thats not it – If you would like to checkout the complete list of changes and features Click Here.

Just saw these ads running and thought to post the details regarding it.

Telenor Pakistan proudly introduces new USB DATA Package with amazing bundle offer for our valued Telenor Persona Postpaid subscribers. In USB Data Package, customers can get:

• One Year Free Internet.
• One USB Stick – E 169
• One Postpaid SIM (with USB DATA package)

Telenor offers widest EDGE connectivity when compared to other operators in Pakistan. By using Telenor USB Sick, our customers can access internet at any time and at any place in more than 2000 cities & towns of Pakistan.

Telenor USB DATA Package Offer:
For the first time in Pakistan, Telenor is proudly introducing free internet package for One Year.

Telenor Smart Stick =  Rs. 9,555/- (Inclusive of Taxes)
1 Postpaid SIM with Data 5 Package  =  Free
Refundable Security = Rs. 500/-
1 year free GPRS/ EDGE (with monthly usage of 4GB).

Below are the Terms & Conditions:

• 12 months Line Rent for USB DATA package is built-in in the Telenor USB Stick price. No Line Rent will be charged for 12 months from the date of sale of Telenor USB Stick.

• After 12 months, USB DATA package offer will expire and subscriber will be automatically shifted to Data 3 price plan.

• Customers can activate Voice on their USB DATA package without additional cost or security deposit.

• Existing Telenor USB stick holder can change his / her price plan from Data3 to USB DATA package without any additional cost. Customer will have to show evidence of the ownership of older version of Telenor USB & SIM.

You can visit the offical page by Clicking Here.

I was trying to find the Plan Prices, but couldn’t find them – i guess they haven’t put those up online yet.

The monthly bandwidth limit is low too, but will be better to decide once we know what the price is – also, all they have said on the page is that its Edge service but there’s actually no specific internet speed provided.

One of my friend is planning on trying this out, i will know more about how good or bad they are providing the service is (but personally, i dont have much hopes).

Watch Pakistan Dawn News Live Online

Pakistan Watch Dawn News For live latest news, updates, discussion and much more. Dawn News is one of the best english news paper and channel in pakistan.

The Dawn Media Network has launched Dawn News, Pakistan’s first English language news and current affairs television channel.

Dawn News Live Online is powered by Dawn Television Network.

Let us know if its not working for you or you need another mirror.

Watch Pakistan Geo News Live Online

Pakistan Geo News is one of the most popular and watched news channel in the country Geo News offers great and informative television shows and keeps upto date with the latest news and sports updates.

Geo News online is a great thing for broadband users who doesn’t have a cable tv. Now you can watch Geo TV LIVE! and see what’s on at Geo TV directly from your PC.

Geo News Live shows / programs include:
Sub Bata Doon, Capital talk, Metrolite News, Bazaar, Aaj Kamran Khan Kay Sath, Tezi Mandee, Aaj Kay Bhao, Hum Sub Umeed Se Hain, Score, Round Up, Yeh Hai Pakistan, GEO lifestyle, Aik Din Geo Ke Saath and many more.

Geo News Live Online is powered by Geo Television Network.

Let us know if its not working for you or you need another mirror.

Rapidshare has grown to become the leading file sharing service online, users who are limited to non-premium user account are often presented with timers or some other limitations.

Recently users have discovered ways of bypassing the download limits and skipping the waiting time.

I have been starting to use rapidshare much more often these days – i tried out this method and it worked out perfectly fine. I tried this on IE 7, IE 8 and Firefox 3.0.7 without any issues.

Lets begin, continue reading below..

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• First open the web browser and enter your rapidshare download link.
• When the page loads, you are given two buttons Free & Premium.
• Click on Free – The next page loads and you see the timer starting like in the above image.
• When you see that timer start just input this into your browser: javascript:alert(c=-1) and press ENTER.

The timer should disappear and now you can download easily without any waiting

 Hope that helped

please do post your comments and let me know what happens

Free your system memory by using this simple trick.

Have you noticed that all your used system resources are freed up when you restart your computer? – Your system runs much faster after restarting that’s because it frees up all the system memory that was used in the last session.

Using this trick you can restart your system (free system memory) by just one click and it only takes only 5 secs.

Just follow the below instructions to get started:

• Right Click anywhere on the empty desktop and Select – New -> Shortcut.
• When prompted with a box to select a file,  Type or Copy/Paste this: -

%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks


• Then finally you can give your shortcut a name “Quick Restart” or anything you like.

In the end when its all said and done - all you have to do now is Double Click the newly created shortcut to free up your system / computer memory.

You can also change your shortcut icon to make it appear different on the desktop

Try this out when you feel your computer is starting to run slow.

Note:- It is best if you close any opened applications (if possible).

If you found this post useful or has helped you in some way – please do take a moment to stop and comment

Earn revenue on your parked pages with Google AdSense for domains.

AdSense for domains allows publishers with undeveloped domains to help users by providing relevant information including ads, links and search results.

With AdSense for domains, users can find relevant information rather than see empty pages or “page not found” errors. To ensure positive user experience and the quality of our network, these sites are monitored for policy compliance and prohibited from using text and images designed to confuse users.

AdSense for domains provides advertisers with additional opportunities to find their customers, and ads on these pages convert well. In addition, we regularly receive requests from advertisers who have found domains to be an effective way to reach their users.

If you have undeveloped domains, then AdSense for domains can help your users. To get started, check out our setup instructions, and visit the Help Center for more information.

Google has just extended the AdSense for Domains program to International AdSense publishers and the program now supports non-English languages as well.

The AdSense for Domains program will also appeal to users who have purchased web domains only for the purpose of Google Apps and have no plans of creating / hosting a public website. In that case you may have Gmail, Google Calendar, etc. in sub-domains (mail.xxx.com or calendar.xxx.com) while you may use the main domain (www.xxx.com) for AdSense ads.

Click Here to visit the website available for this service

Dragonball Z Returns After 11 Years..

I just can’t believe this – i actually found something that i thought i would never see again – a new episode of my all time favorite anime Dragonball Z.

This new episode is presented by JumpLand.

One sad news is that its not in English dub – only English subtitles (but its better than nothing right?)

The episode is set 2 years after the defeat of Buu and Satan (Hercules) is holding a huge festival rewarding himself for nothing. But the good thing about all this is that we get too see the return of the entire cast of Dragonball Z from the obvious Goku to the more obscure Oolong. Hilarity is every where and rampant. This episode brings a couple of new surprises in store for us. Along with new surprises, it certainly brings back a lot of long lost nostalgia for the series that made Anime the thing to be in America during the mid-90’s. This episode has great modern updates in animation and just as fun as ever to watch. Although this episode seems like a filler more then an actual episode that adds on to the Universe of the Dragonball Z, it is still a gem that reminds their fans how great a series this show was. As the episode comes to an abrupt closing, not withstanding all the great fight scenes that precedes this, there is a small urge that begins to swell up as you wish that Akira Toriyama made more of these little shows for us. But alas it ends here my friends.

If you wish to watch this new episode you have two choices either visit Jumpland’s Website to watch it  or Click Here to download the New Dragonball Z Episode.

Entrecard’s New Market-Place and Social Intergration (BETA)

I just got an email informing about these major new features read below.

Entrecard Market-Place:

Our marketplace is fresh out of the oven and it is jam packed with features to make your shopping experience fun, enjoyable and productive. The best part is EVERYONE is automatically a seller, so simply by going to the shop you can immediately create listings for free. You can sell and product of service, blogging related or not.

A great improvement we have made to the Marketplace system is escrow. When you sell an item in our shop, and someone buys it, the credits from the buyer are automatically placed into an escrow account. When the Buyer received the item, they mark it as received and the credits are released to the seller.

So head on over to the Market to do some selling, or some shopping, and tell us what you think!

BONUS CONTEST:
We will be giving away a 1000 credits to the first HUNDRED members who list an item for sale in our shop and use images for their listing. Don’t think you have something to sell? Think harder! You can sell blog reviews, advertising on your blog, or that can of soup in your kitchen cupboard that you aren’t going to eat. To claim your prize, link to your item in the comments of this blog post. Again, the first 100 entries will receive 1000 credits (one prize per person).

Entrecard Social Intergration:

We also rolled out a new feature I’m very excited about. If you notice my profile, it now has a link to my Twitter page!

We have integrated your profile with ten of the most popular social networks so that your networking on Entrecard can be more beneficial. Whether you use Twitter, Myspace, Facebook, MyBlogLog, etc. you can put links to them in your Entrecard Profile!

To add these links, go to your Entrecard Dashboard and scroll down until you see your “Entrecard” or image/avatar. Click the “Edit” button next to it, and you will be taken to the page where you edit your profile. And on that page you will see something that looks like this:

So go ahead, and enter any of your online identities so that all your Entrecard friends can find you in other places!

That was a very long email, i know

But the news is great and the new marketplace also looks fantastic much better and cleaner than before too

I have never added any listing on entrecard as of yet, but the new look and litte personal curiosity dragged me into submitting a listing please do consider looking at if you come by it

Best of Luck to Entrecard and Entrecard Users!

Hello

Recently when i opened Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended, i came accross an error that was preventing me from selecting any controls.

The Hand Tool was selected by default and i wasn’t able to select anything else.

The solution was pretty simple, but took awhile to figure out.

• Close all adobe applications running then goto C Drive
• Open Documents and Setting Folder
• Then $USER Directory (This is your logon username)
• Open Application Data Folder
• Open Adobe Folder
• Finally you should see the folder Adobe Photoshop CS3 – Don’t delete it, instead rename it to something else (i.e Old_Adobe Photoshop Cs3).

Hopefully your problem should be solved

But hold on a second, i’ve noticed that some people have reported that using this method they get another error that says an error something like Something prevented the Text Engine. If thats the case continue reading below.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended – Something Prevented The Text Engine

When you try to select the Text Tool from photohop and get this error – you should follow the below steps and your problem should be solved.

• Close all adobe applications running – Then Open C Drive
• Goto Documents and Settings
• Then $USER directory (Just like above)
• Open Local Settings Folder
• Open Application Data Folder
• Open Adobe Folder
• Open TypeSupport Folder
• Delete everything inside the TypeSupport Folder

Note:- Some directories are hidden by default so make sure to set the explorer to display all hidden files.

I hope this fixes your problem with Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended – Please leave your comments if or not this has helped you solve your problem.